12-letter words containing u, n, f, o, r, t
- frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
- frontrunning — the practice by market makers of using advance information provided by their own investment analysts before it has been given to clients
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- frumentation — (in ancient Rome) a public donation of grain, often given to citizens during times of unease
- frustrations — Plural form of frustration.
- full frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
- full-frontal — showing the entire front: full-frontal nudity.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- ground fault — the momentary, usually accidental, grounding of a conducting wire.
- ground frost — the condition resulting from a temperature reading of 0°C or below on a thermometer in contact with a grass surface
- ground staff — The people who are paid to maintain a sports ground are called the ground staff.
- group of ten — the ten nations who met in Paris in 1961 to arrange the special drawing rights of the IMF: Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, UK, US, and West Germany
- herpetofauna — the reptiles and amphibians that inhabit a given area
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- natural food — Natural food is food which has not been processed much and has not had artificial ingredients added to it.
- neutron flux — the rate of flow of neutrons through a specified area
- normal fault — gravity fault.
- on your feet — position: standing
- out of print — of, for, or comprising newspapers and magazines: print media.
- out of round — not having perfect roundness
- out-of-print — being no longer published; no longer printed or reprinted: a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.
- out-of-round — not perfectly round.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- trifurcation — to divide into three forks or branches.
- turn of mind — If someone is of a particular turn of mind, they have that kind of mind or character.
- type founder — a person engaged in the making of metallic types for printers.
- uncomforting — affording comfort or solace.
- unconformity — lack of conformity; incongruity; inconsistency.
- unconfronted — to face in hostility or defiance; oppose: The feuding factions confronted one another.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unforgetting — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.